City clerk’s office signs advise not to use heavy felt-tip pens to fill in the ovals on absentee ballots. They bleed through and ruin the ballot. Spoke with one woman in line who’d done exactly that and was turning in her spoiled ballot and voting a new one.

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Something I learned at election inspector training: you can use anything except a red pen or pencil to fill in the ovals. Even pencil is OK. We got used to felt pens from the old connect-the-arrow forms.

MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) is reporting that two of its protesters have been arrested for locking their necks with bicycle U-locks to pipeline construction trucks being used for the Enbridge Line 6B pipeline expansion. [Source]

In a roundup of the lineup for the Aug. 5, 2014 primary elections, we overstated by one year Ward 5 councilmember Chuck Warpehoski’s length of service as a council representative on the city’s environmental commission. He served in that capacity during his first year on the council. We note the error here and have corrected the original article.